Inflicted in example sentence

For most of our evolutionary history, human beings – and our primate ancestors – have lived in small groups, in which violence could be inflicted only in an up-close and personal way, by hitting, pushing, strangling, or using a stick or stone as a club.

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See the brick walls as all the problems that we've inflicted on this planet.

And before long, our bodies were covered head to toe with these nasty wounds inflicted by the terrified penguins.

We have come so far down the road of prohibition, punishment and prejudice that we have become indifferent to the suffering that we have inflicted on the most vulnerable people in our society.

In Dubai, I chronicled injustices and inequalities inflicted regularly on the migrant labor force.

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